By CE Marshall
The Abomination of Gerrymandering in living color
I've been itching to write a blog regarding gerrymandering for quite a while, but then I thought to myself- "I wonder if I've written a blog already on gerrymandering?"- so a quick search reveals that I have indeed. All the way back in 2013 ! Reading it reminds me that here in Florida we voted to stop gerrymandering but the "status quo" of the state government resisted it. So, I'm posting a link to the blog- which was actually from a letter that the Orlando Sentinel printed from myself. Before I go there I do want to make a few comments. How is this Democracy to gerrymander at all? You're taking away the people's right to representation so that your political party gets the advantage. What about the people? I know that sounds cliche but it's true. It is for the individual that I write and when the people's right to be heard through representative government is withheld then I get really, really mad. Both parties are guilty of it, but the Democrats truly wrote the book. All Democrat or "blue" states are gerrymandered to the highest degree possible to the point that if you're Republican and living in a Democrat controlled state then you are not being represented in Washington, DC. There's no other way to look at it.
Stealing Democracy? Yes, you are Democrats, and you've been doing it for a long- long time.
In my humble opinion.
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